06/21/2010

This is a really weak joke, I apologize. Kain was one of the first characters people said they wanted me to draw, and the only thing I could remember about him was that he dies if he stops killing people for too long. Originally there was a completely different joke here and the other guy was Kratos, but I decided the joke was bad and I use Kratos too much so I polled the folks watching my Twitter and they decided they wanted a Borderlands comic. Then I rewrote the punchline and Mr. Sparta got swapped out for Brick at the last minute.

I’m also going to take a moment to apologize to the people I tricked into thinking this was a video game comic, because it’s really just a comic about whatever absurdly macho thing I felt like making fun of while I was sitting down and staring at photoshop. This is my way of saying that the next few weeks are going to have nothing at all to do with video games and you don’t need to send me letters asking what happened to all the video game jokes. But there will be a new character next week and Jared’ll be back again soon so… hopefully we’ll still all have a good time?

Check out the video game Borderlands. He is known as the “Tank” ingame. The game is based on constant item drops, and there are literally about 100,000 guns in the game. The item drops are free for all and you must beat people to them.

Pretty sweet page this week, it’s also nice to see that it will lend itself to stuff outside of Video Games. And I’m just going to randomly throw this out there; why not do something involving either The A-Team or just B.A.? I’m just saying that it could be quite funny.

They may spell it like that in his newspaper ad, but the title of the movie is still “Beetlejuice” and it’s what they bill the character as on IMDB. I dunno, it’s back and forth, but it’s not out of line calling him Beetlejuice. Seriously, directly on the title slate.

I see nothing in the title nor the description about the place from the first comic that says that the place is exclusively for video game characters. Only that is involves Manly Guys. Therefore, as long as the comic features Manly Guys and there are Manly Things involved, there should be no problem.

It’s difficult to pick out the guy on the right as Brick; I wouldn’t have picked him if you hadn’t said so. Still, I absolutely love the comic, and I look forward to more Jared!

Incidentally, I don’t read many comic books, so macho characters and associated jokes from there and some other media will go pretty much completely over my head. But I don’t mind; I consider it an educational opportunity! :)

Well, Kain is a vampire, so killing people to survive is more or less (part of) what he does. Unless you’re trying to get him to switch to blood packs. Which didn’t exist in his games. :P

Anyway, cool to see one of my all-time favorite video game heroes (or antiheroes is more like it) here. Not too fond of the way he looks in the bottom left panel, but eh, who cares. It’s mostly because, even though kain has a bit more of an emotional range than many other ‘macho’ characters, that’s one expression I’d never expected to see Kain make.

KAaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!
Okay, you got his crest wrong a little bit, but Kaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin! I mean, I still recognized him without even a split-second of thinking, so yeah.
And I, for one, am totally fine with an absence of video game characters. I might actually get a friend of mine to, uh, “tune in” more regularly, seeing as he hates vg webcomics.

*shameless admition* I dunno who half of these ppl are.,. i recognised snake, and ganadorf, and link… and a few others… but quey???? I am but a humble woman who plays very little computer games (i DO play them mthough* and knows very little of the world…. please pitty me <3

I don’t mean to be the annoying person who picks things apart but I am curious… what happened to the commander’s black eye? Probably just a minor forgetful thing but if he has super awesome regeneration powers that would be sweet too ;D

I thought at first that it would have been a Kain and Lynch pun as well, as I’d not played borderlands so I didn’t know who Brick was. But then I’ve never played Kane and Lynch either, but their names are in the title. I did recognise him as Kain straight away too. I’ve not seen gargoyles so wouldn’t know anyone else who might look like Kain.

But, I mean, I’d probably do a Clint Eastwood comic before a Red Dead Redemption one. Especially since I spend so much time at work and drawing comics that I haven’t had a chance to play Red Dead Redemption yet.

The problem with that is that Superman is already incredibly well adjusted compared to the rest of the beefcakes we’ve seen thus far, with a successful job as a reporter and a never-ending battle against the forces of evil to throw himself into.

welp, I’ve got the next couple months written and he’s not in them so…. sorry, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath. He’s a fan favourite, I don’t want to use him if I don’t have something clever for him to do. When I just trot out a character for the sake of making a cameo it makes for a pretty lame joke. Like this one.

If you picture Kain with a whiny Paris Hilton voice, and Brick with a voice like Nicole Ritchie, THEN the joke gets sense.
Kratos? Oh, the macho of machos , the new god of war, not being joked enough? mwahaha….
That´s like Stallone wearing a leotard and saying “does it make me look fat”?

Because you replied to me I am going to take it as an invitation to spam every one of your messengers because that means we are true friends and I will show you pictures of my original characters (!!!!!) and ask you to draw them for me!!!!!!!! BECAUSE WE ARE FRIENDS NOW WHO WHOO.

I will buy you a few beers in a week or two when I invite myself over. I think you will need it. And pudding.

I write all of these weeks ahead of when they show up online. I can’t really cut away for one-shot gags to fit in every cameo people are hounding me for when I’m in the middle of a continuity-based run of strips. A-Team was awesome, but I don’t feel like jamming in an reference just because AHAHAHHAHAH IT’S CURRENT SO THAT MAKES IT RELEVANT AND FUNNY RIGHT?

Plus, usually I only make fun of new movies when they’re bad, å la Those Clash of the Titans strips. I’d like to be able to do more of those, but I have barely any free time at all.

This strip is great and i get great laughs out of it just about every Monday without fail. Not gonna hound you for a cameo because you’ve already trotted out several of my favorite characters.
PS. The Dragon age stuff was the best especially since few people play enough of the game to reference the really funny parts of it.

Forgive me if this makes me sound like a dinosaur, but how would making a facebook page make sharing this easier? Isn’t it equally easy to like… post a link on someone’s wall? No offense meant, I’m honestly curious.

I cannot wait to see the original characters over the next few weeks. The jokes about video games and other pop culture manly men are funny, sure – but the girl, Commando, and Jared are the characters who have kept me reading.

Funny – didn’t recognise Brick, but that joke works all by itself.
Shame about Kain – I’d say he’s entirely out of place in this continuity, being an aristocratic magnificent bastard with delightfully Shakespearean dialogue.

I can honestly say that if I saw a beefy guy with scars all over his face or a dude with honest-to-god claws, fangs, and a wicked sweet sash bagging my groceries, the last thing I would think is that he wasn’t macho.

Honestly, I’m kind of glad it’s not just video game jokes. Your video game jokes are very funny, but outside of the Pokemon/Zelda ones, I don’t get the references, and googling them makes jokes sound like something run through bablefish. They’re still funny, but I know I’m missing out on something. The jokes that involve the main characters, develop them (and involve story arcs), those I get and enjoy the most, so I’m glad that there are more of those.

And brick is described as smelling of death and blood and growling like and animal… so that second last frame does not really suit him… he should have a “Im gonna kill you if you mess with me” demeanour

A dude could drown in all the commentary, blabbering and bickering around these parts…
But I will chime in and note I loved the Legacy of Kain games… even if Kain never got the nifty “immunity to water” power that Raziel got.